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Table 2 Associations between changes in acute genitourinary toxicity grades across radiotherapy and patient’s individual and clinical characteristics

From: Circulating levels of IL-6 and TGF-β1 in patients with prostate cancer undergoing radiotherapy: associations with acute radiotoxicity and fatigue symptoms

Parameter

Univariate analysis a

b

p

Smoking status—smokers

0.126

0.494

Alcohol consumption

-0.259

0.116

Diabetes mellitus

0.540

0.007

Chronic hypertension

0.107

0.549

Abdominal operation

-0.181

0.255

  1. a multilevel ordinal regression models with the degree of toxicity as the dependent variable, controlled for type of radiotherapy